| A | B |
|---|
| Transcontinental Railroad | Tracks running from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed all the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union in 1863 |
| Sharecroppers | Farmers who agreed to give part of each year's crop to the landowner in return for a piece of land to farm |
| Monopoly | A company that has complete control over a particular field of business (eliminating all competition) |
| Trust | A group of corporations in the same business that combine under a single board of trustees (to eliminate competition) |
| Homestead Act | Government policy during the Civil War that gave 160 acres of land to farmers who settled in the western frontier for 5 years. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" facilities for whites and blacks were constitutional. |
| Radical Republicans | Controlled Congress after the Civil War and wanted harsh punishment for the South |
| John D. Rockefeller | Industrialist who created an Oil Trust to control oil production |
| Andrew Carnegie | Entrepreneur who created a monopoly in the steel industry |
| Black Codes | Enforced racial prejudice such as the poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause |
| 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments | Reconstruction Amendments |
| 13th Amendment | A - Abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | B - Freedmen Become citizens |
| 15th Amendment | C - Freed Men Can Vote (but not women) |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Disenfranchisement | Deny the privilege to vote |
| Emancipation | Freedom |
| Entrepreneur | Person who wmoney to start a business or enterprise. |
| Reconstruction Era | Time period from 1865-1877 when South was rebuilt |
